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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Martin Hay

Mark Lane, Last Word: My Indictment Of The CIA In The Murder of JFK

By any standards, Lane's resume is impressive, and I have a great deal of respect for the man. So it is with heavy heart that I must say his latest and most likely his last book on the murder of JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Larry Hancock, NEXUS

  An interesting and worthwhile work. ... it has a unique approach to it, and Hancock’s analysis of the crime has sophistication, intelligence and nuance to it, writes Jim DiEugenio. &n
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Joseph E. Green

Barry Ernst, The Girl on the Stairs

Joseph Green and Jim DiEugenio look at Barry Ernst's account of his personal quest to find Victoria Adams, a key witness in the Texas School Book Depository on November 22, 1963. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Seamus Coogan

Peter Kross, JFK: The French Connection

  A disjointed, unorganized, poorly referenced, repetitive ramble. ... With nearly two million pages of declassified documents, the JFK case should be an interesting topic. This book competes
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Mantik

Sherry P. Fiester, Enemy of the Truth: Myths, Forensics and the Kennedy Assassination

A valiant book that sometimes stumbles and falls short of its proclaimed goal ... On the other hand, the author does a skillful job on several core topics, writes Dr. David Mantik. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Frank Cassano

John McAdams, JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy – Three Reviews (3)

McAdams likes to warn us about how “noise” clouds our perceptions. He should know, he’s directly responsible for a great deal of it, asserts Frank Cassano. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Gary Aguilar

John McAdams, JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy – Three Reviews (2)

Line after line, paragraph after paragraph, page after page, McAdams trudges tirelessly onward, selectively using testimony to reach a particular conclusion. Though readers may find that it’s pe...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Albert L. Rossi

James DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed (Second Edition)

At the end of his review of JFK and the Unspeakable, DiEugenio wrote that Jim Douglass’ book was the best in the field since Gerald McKnight’s.  The author’s own book has a dual...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Harrison E. Livingstone, Kaleidoscope

There are some valid criticisms in the book and Livingstone is to be properly praised for them. He certainly straightens out certain issues that needed to be elucidated in Horne’s very long fi
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Arnaldo M. Fernandez

Brian Latell, Castro’s Secrets

Dr. Latell ... used the creative imagination of Cuban defectors for writing a non-fiction book instead of a novel about the JFK assassination, concludes Arnaldo Fernandez.    
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Martin Hay

G. Paul Chambers, Head Shot: The Science Behind The JFK Assassination

Despite telling us that “consistency with other evidence is very important to scientists”, he appears to have studied each point in isolation and then cherry-picked the details that fit hi...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Seamus Coogan

Don Adams & Harrison E. Livingstone, From an Office Building with a High-Powered Rifle: One FBI Agent's View of the JFK Assassination

  [Adams] is remarkably open and honest about being inexperienced on the Milteer assignment and about his being unaccustomed in terms of research on the JFK case. Therefore, when he comes to n
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Peter Janney, Mary's Mosaic (Part 2)

The fact that Janney’s book has been accepted by some in the critical community indicates to me the continuing ascendancy of the Alex Jones, “anything goes” school, writes Jim DiEuge...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lisa Pease

Peter Janney, Mary's Mosaic (Part 1)

Janney tries to make an epic romance out of a story which--when read strictly on a factual basis, sans Janney’s spin--seems anything but, writes Lisa Pease. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable

    A rich, rewarding, and reverberating book which both illuminates and empowers the reader, the best book in the field since Breach of Trust, writes Jim DiEugenio.    
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Seamus Coogan

Joseph Farrell, LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy

Farrell was ordered by his editor to write a book on the case based on often archaic, and probably Angleton influenced material on one hand, and people like Dick Hoagland (Mr. UFO), on the other. Work...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest, Part 2

Jim DiEugenio continues his re-examination of Halberstam, emphasizing the near total antithesis between LBJ and JFK in terms of Vietnam (and foreign policy in general) which the book all but erased. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest, Part 1

In the first of a two part study, Jim DiEugenio reexamines, in the light of what we now know, the book which perhaps more than any other epitomized the accepted wisdom on JFK's role in US involvement ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Vince Palamara

Gerald Blaine, The Kennedy Detail

Although very well written, along with some nice photographs, as well, The Kennedy Detail is really a thinly veiled attempt to rewrite history ... and absolve the agents of their collective survivor's...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Gordon Goldstein, Lessons in Disaster

Although [Bundy] thought [Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest] was an entertaining and informative read, he concluded that the central thesis was just wrong. It was not the advisers—the best...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

James Blight, Virtual JFK (Part 2)

The book is well worth buying. In my view, it closes the chapter on a debate that has been going on since 1992. As shown here, it's a debate that should have never started, concludes Jim DiEugenio. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Mantik

Douglas Horne, Inside the ARRB (Part IV)

I stand in awe of the scope, detail, and profound insights that Horne has achieved, especially in the medical evidence – to say nothing of his Olympian effort. ... The bottom line is that I feel...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Douglas Horne, Inside the ARRB

There is much of value [in this book], if you are willing to spend a lot of time sifting through five volumes. If it had been half as long, it might have been twice as good, writes Jim DiEugenio. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Mantik

Donald Byron Thomas, Hear No Evil: Social Constructivism and the Forensic Evidence In the Kennedy Assassination

David Mantik’s extensive review of Don Thomas’s book has been overhauled and revised; it now appears on his own website. We have removed the now superseded version which first appeared on ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Martin Hay

Donald Byron Thomas, Hear No Evil: Social Constructivism and the Forensic Evidence In the Kennedy Assassination – Two Reviews (1)

Thomas shows how people like Luis Alverez, John Lattimer and Larry Sturdivan all constructed dubious theories “for the purpose of explaining away the obvious reason for the head snap, and all su...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Rodger Remington, Biting the Elephant

An account of its author's attempts to correspond with, and perhaps understand, several prominent lone nut supporters, reviewed by Jim DiEugenio. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Joseph E. Green

David Aaronovitch, Voodoo Histories

If the author had truly been serious about writing an overview of conspiracies, he might have left behind the large package of straw men gathered in this book ... [and] instead chosen from any number ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Davy

Lamar Waldron, with Thom Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy

There is an almost pathological use of conditionals; may have, perhaps, could have, if, etc. Conversely, there is an overabundance of hackneyed declaratives where conditionals should have been used, a...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Dick Russell, On the Trail of the JFK Assassins – Richard Case Nagell: The Most Important Witness, Part 2

Russell, with the help of Hulme, did a much better job of telling the story of Nagell in 2003 than he did in 1992, writes Jim DiEugenio. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Dick Russell, On the Trail of the JFK Assassins – Richard Case Nagell: The Most Important Witness

An anthology of over forty chapters which spans many years of contributions, but the number of essays that are really important, insightful, and worth preserving is small, writes Jim DiEugenio. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Lamar Waldron, with Thom Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy - Update

Jim DiEugenio discusses reactions to his review of Lamar Waldron's Legacy of Secrecy. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Lamar Waldron, Ultimate Sacrifice

One of the most puzzling things about Ultimate Sacrifice is that some have actually taken it seriously. Peter Scott has said it is well documented. My question to Peter: Well-documented with what? Fra...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Milicent Cranor

Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: A Crime Scene Between Two Hard Covers

One thing is clear, if nothing else: there are people who will say anything to promote the lone assassin theory, writes Milicent Cranor. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Dale Myers Gets Perturbed!

Jim DiEugenio discusses Dale Myers's reaction to his review of Reclaiming History. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Lamar Waldron, with Thom Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy

With what the authors have now done to Williams' credibility, plus the near universality of agreement on the true nature of the C -Day plans, the end should be spelled out for this entire "second inva...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked – Update

Author James DiEugenio updates his review of Larry Hancock's Someone Would Have Talked with further observations about the problem of its questionable source material. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Von Pein: Still Cheerleading

Jim DiEugenio replies to yet more criticisms of his review of Bugliosi's Reclaiming History. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

John Newman, Oswald and the CIA (re-issue)

This remarkable book could never have been composed or even contemplated without the existence of the Assassination Records Review Board. No book takes us more into Oswald's workings with the intellig...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Jefferson Morley, Our Man in Mexico

The best part of the book deals with Oswald's alleged visits to the Cuban consulate and Russian Embassy in Mexico City in the fall of 1963. This section of the work owes itself to the disclosures of t...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

David Kaiser, The Road to Dallas

The Road to Dallas is a methodically bad book. And as you read it you pick up on the method in its badness. And then at the end you comprehend the reason for it all, writes Jim DiEugenio. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation

It is not just well-written. In some places it rises to the level of extraordinarily well-written. Almost every chapter is well-planned and organized. And the book as a whole contains a completed aest...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

George Michael Evica, A Certain Arrogance

Much of [his] material [on the Paines] is taken from the extraordinary work done on the couple by Carol Hewett, Barbara La Monica, and Steve Jones. As the author notes, this work is so potent that it ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked

Although there are some interesting and worthwhile aspects to this book, overall I found it really disappointing. It is ... unconvincing in its overall thesis, and uses questionable sources and witnes...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Gary Aguilar

Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

The book's use also lies in demonstrating that it may not be possible for one person to fully master, or give a fair accounting of, this impossibly tangled mess of a case, writes Gary Aguilar. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Davy

Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

With statements like Mr. Goetzman's, one doubts if Goetzman, Hanks and Paxton really read Bugliosi's 2,740 pages or any of the critical literature released prior, or subsequent, to Reclaimimg History ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Michael Green

Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: Besmirching History

Michael Green takes Bugliosi to task on the evidence, arguing for a national security state cover-up through the mass media. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Gerald McKnight, Breach of Trust

Mark Lane wrote that the Warren Report dishonored "those who wrote it little more than those who praise it." This book makes you feel the sting of that dishonor more than any other book that I know. B...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jefferson Morley

Letter to the Editor re: Bryan Burrough's review of Reclaiming History

Letter of protest to New York Times, signed by Jefferson Morley, Norman Mailer, Anthony Summers and David Talbot. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Josiah Thompson

Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History

What this case does need is some old-fashioned, historical scholarship. It's a shame and a waste of great time and effort that Bugliosi decided to contribute to the problem and not to its solution, co...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Davy

Paris Flammonde, Assassination of America: The Kennedy Coups d'Etat

Paris Flammonde, who spent years in radio and television production ... is part of a vanishing breed -- a cultured intellectual whose wit and intellect is reflected in his prose, writes Bill Davy. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Joan Mellen, A Farewell To Justice

The book was a huge disappointment for me. Reportedly, Mellen spent seven years on it and over 150, 000 dollars. So, quite naturally, like others, I was expecting at least a worthwhile effort. If it w...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Wrone

Gerald Posner, Case Closed

Massive numbers of factual errors suffuse the book, which make it a veritable minefield, writes history professor David Wrone. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Gerald Posner: Did He Get Anything Right?

Jim DiEugenio writes about Gerald Posner's irresponsibility in representing the evidence concerning the JFK assassination. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

How Gerald Posner Got Rich and Famous: Or, Bob Loomis and the Anti-Conspiracy Posse

Jim DiEugenio discusses how Gerald Posner became wealthy from his pro-Warren Commission articles and books. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Posner in New Orleans: Gerry in Wonderland

Case Closed deliberately suppresses and distorts the evidence that Oswald was involved in clandestine activities in New Orleans, writes Jim DiEugenio. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Wallace Miliam

The Posner Follies: Fast and Loose with the Witnesses

Author Wallace Miliam discusses how Case Closed knowingly included false information concerning JFK assassination eyewitnesses. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Stewart Galanor

Gerald Posner, Case Closed – The Art of Misrepresenting Evidence

From an unpublished book review of Case Closed written by Stewart Galanor in October 1993, in which he exposes Posner's misrepresentation of eyewitness testimony. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Wrone

Shame On You, Sy, for the Awful Book on JFK

David Wrone reviews Seymour Hersh's The Dark Side of Camelot. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Patricia Lambert, False Witness

Robert Blakey has said that after his experience with the House Select Committee, it was his opinion that the JFK case was like a Rorschach test, people saw in it what they wished to see. Lambert's bo...
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